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Austen Summative Visits & Outings - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Estate owned by George Knightley.
        Described by Austen as being as a "sweet view—sweet to the eye and the mind. English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive." = what effect does the repetition of 'English' have?
        
        1957, Lionel Trilling (American critic) cited this passage for its "national feeling" = Intro to Emma, Boston edition
        
        Austen derives national identity from this neat, pleasing landscape (Jonathan Bate, 2000)
        
        Anthony Mandal, 'Language' in Jane Austen in Context = Knightley and Donwell are both "synecdochic of a larger national conception of Englishness"
        
        1815 = Battle of Waterloo
        
        "Austen's readers have long made it perform considerable ideological work. It has often been viewed through a patriotic haze, conscripted as Austen's contribution to the nation-defining discourse of the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic era. And it has been seen as a mark of Austen's tacit complicity with the social structures of late Enlightenment England, neatly divided into country estates, each thoroughly surveyed, painted or sketched and legitimately owned by a ruling family." = copied from jstor article Purity and Danger in Austen's Emma
      - Donwell Abbey = pleasing, comforting landscape vs Box Hill = problematic and dangerous
        How do the two compare on a linguistic level?
        Austen describes Donwell Abbey as the seat of the entire estate : the symbol of power itself, but not in an ostentatious way. But does the rest of the novel endorse the view of Donwell as a metonym for the entire nationalist English kingdom?
        This passage uses FID and is filtered through the consciousness of all the visitors, but is primarily concerned with Emma's impressions - it accords with her personality and preoccupations = Emma in a house?
        
        "As the novel demonstrates, Emma is a woman with a compulsive rage for order and, in a semiotic sense, purity." = jstor article Purity and Danger in Austen's Emma
    - - Emma does not dare go inside herself, and waits for Harriet outside, whilst timing it = it is 14 mins, one shorter than the dangerous 15, which she deigns too long to spend with someone of such a low class and would taint Harriet. Highlights Emma's obsession with purity which he exemplifies further at the picnic with her scathing comment to Miss Bates. Emma sees the Martins as outsiders to her social world.
    - - Reveals Emma's true nature when she offends Miss Bates - what does the outdoor space have to do with this?
      - Emma gets a little too comfortable with stealing the spotlight and the prize of everybody's attention, so oversteps her mark when she gets too cocky. From this point in the novel, Emma starts to have all her realisations (about Frank C, Harriet, her own feelings for Knightley etc). This can only happen after she has been humbled and brought down from her high pedestal.